We must not rely on wake_q_add() to delay the wakeup; in particular commit: 1d0dcb3ad9d3 ("futex: Implement lockless wakeups") moved wake_q_add() before smp_store_release(&q->lock_ptr, NULL), which could result in futex_wait() waking before observing ->lock_ptr == NULL and going back to sleep again. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 1d0dcb3ad9d3 ("futex: Implement lockless wakeups") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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